This time we are here to celebrate b’day of our friend, sister and blogger Priya Suresh. I admire her cooking skills a lot. How she manages her kids, home and at the same time blog too 🙂 She is a best example of pakka Indian Women.
I feel very lucky to met her through this blogging world and she will be a good inspiration to future bloggers too. This time we planned to prepare selected color dessert. I chose red color. As Red stands for symbol of energy, strength and love. Everything fits for her. She is very energetic, full of strength and cares for you like a friend and sister.

Priya Akka, May your birthday be filled with many happy hours and your life with many happy birthdays.

a rich dessert prepared from tomatoes and sugar & commonly served on the day of Ramadan by Tamil Muslims.

Author: Preeti Tamilarasan

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: South Indian

Serves: 2

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

1 tsp cardamom seeds powder

4-5 medium sized tomatoes

1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter

1 tbsp mixed nuts (pistachio, almonds, cashew) – for frying

Instructions

Wash tomatoes and cook in water for 10 mins. Peel off skin and blend tomatoes in a mixer to smooth puree. Keep it aside.

Heat tomato puree in a non-stick pan on medium flame. Keep stirring and once it starts thickening, add sugar and cardamom powder to it. Stir it frequently on low flame to avoid sticking. Meanwhile, heat a pan and fry nuts in ghee. Keep it aside.

Keep stirring halwa for 15 mins. Add fried nuts to it. Once it starts leaving the sides of pan, remove from the heat. The whole process of cooking may take 15-20 mins. Serve it cold.

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How to prepare Tomato Halwa,

Wash tomatoes and cook in water for 10 mins. Peel off skin and blend tomatoes in a mixer to smooth puree. Keep it aside.

Heat tomato puree in a non-stick pan on medium flame. Keep stirring and once it starts thickening, add sugar and cardamom powder to it. Stir it frequently on low flame to avoid sticking. Meanwhile, heat a pan and fry nuts in ghee. Keep it aside.

Keep stirring halwa for 15 mins. Add fried nuts to it. Once it starts leaving the sides of pan, remove from the heat. The whole process of cooking may take 15-20 mins. Serve it cold.